Our monthly discussion about IMC related operations and hangar chat scenarios.

Our monthly discussion about IMC related operations and hangar chat scenarios.

Review icing, turbulence and thunderstorms. Then take an in-depth look at thunderstorms, the environments they form in and how to forecast areas likely to experience thunderstorms. Close with a flight scenario based on springtime weather.

Our monthly discussion about IMC related operations and hangar chat scenarios.

In this class we’ll review weather phenomena such as thunderstorms and coastal stratus. And get an in-depth understanding of the Skew-T log/P-thermodynamic diagram. Then look at a flight scenario with summer weather.

Learn about all available aviation weather information sources, how to decode and understand what you see, and where the information comes from. Then review another flight scenario with summer weather.

As winter approaches, get information about seasonal weather hazards such as icing, turbulence and IMC. Then take a detailed look at turbulence followed by a flight scenario with fall/winter weather.

Explore some of the unique weather associated with mountain flying and the nuances of weather caused by mountainous terrain. Then discuss climate and change, what causes our climate to vary and annual influences to weather such as the ENSO pattern. The final flight scenario uses winter conditions in mountainous terrain.